Saturday, December 31, 2005
I've been back for 1 week now, and it's been a blur, a week which was spent mostly on traveling. I'm glad to finally be able to stay at home, well at least for a few days anyway. Spent Monday-Wednesday at my uncle's house in Lampung (Sumatra) for a family reunion with my mum's side of the family. I had a good time there, seeing everyone else whom I haven't seen in quite a while, and well yeah they all basically said the same thing when they saw me :( Caught up with my cousins, especially with Nicole haha. I love my uncle's house..the view from there is just so lovely. Spent Monday evening swimming and playing basketball in the swimming pool with my cousins, and the girls beat the guys haha (though we cheated a bit). Tuesday was a rather boring day. We went to the beach and were hoping to be able to jet-ski, but we got there too late. Had lobster for dinner (I still think I'm allergic to lobster..), and me and my brothers were sabo-ed to sing in front of everyone haha. I don't know why I said I wanted to sing haha, but my brother is still braver than me. Went back to Jakarta on Wednesday morning, but not before (another) game of murderer at the airport with my cousins (fun!!) and another round of photo-taking.
Unfortunately, I think all the traveling, not recovering properly from jet-lag and accumulation of late nights, finally caught up with me and I fell sick on Wednesday. Woke up with a bad stomachache, which refused to go away..really irritating. And it became worse after lunch. We were supposed to go to Sukabumi, about 4 hrs drive from Jakarta, with a few relatives for rafting on Thursday. I was thinking of not going but in the end still went. Bad mistake. Got really carsick and it was quite bad..the road was really really bumpy. And I wasn't the only one. My brother was even more sick than me. But rafting was fun fun fun (though I don't think I would've gone all the way there..). I was sick after I came back and had to spend yesterday resting :( I haven't even played tennis ever since I came back. Oh well..I think I'm overusing the Internet here though haha. Can't be helped la. Life without MSN seems so...weird. It's kind of scary how i've become so dependent(??) on msn.
I feel much better today and went shopping haha. Made a few satisfying purchases :). And got a haircut. My cousins from Lampung are here in Jakarta and I think I'm gonna have dinner with them later. MU's match tonight, at 10, just before the new year kicks in. It'd better be a good result (i.e. win for MU)..
Last day of 2005 today. It's really unbelievable how quick this year has been. Come to think of it, tomorrow is just going to be another day, but it's gonna be next year. So why the significance of next year when it's just gonna be another day?
posted by vivien at 4:02 AM